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Roland Owings

Asheville High School/SILSA

POINTS TOTAL

  • 0 TODAY
  • 0 THIS WEEK
  • 276 TOTAL

participant impact

  • UP TO
    8.0
    meatless or vegan meals
    consumed
  • UP TO
    150
    minutes
    spent learning

Roland's actions

Food, Agriculture, and Land Use

Reduce Animal Products

Plant-Rich Diets

I will enjoy 1 meatless or vegan meals each day of the challenge.

COMPLETED 7
DAILY ACTIONS

Land Sinks

Research Peatlands

Peatland Protection and Rewetting

I will spend 30 minutes researching the environmental benefits of peatlands and what is being done around the world to conserve and restore them.

COMPLETED
ONE-TIME ACTION

Health and Education

Learn about the Need for Family Planning

Family Planning and Education

I will spend at least 20 minutes learning more about the need for family planning globally.

COMPLETED
ONE-TIME ACTION

Industry

Learn about Carbon Offsets

I will spend 30 minutes learning about carbon offsets, and why they are a necessary solution in combating a climate crisis.

COMPLETED
ONE-TIME ACTION

Industry

Research the Climate Impact of Refrigerants

Refrigerant Management

I will spend 30 minutes learning about the climate impact of refrigerants and what climate-friendly refrigerants are by using the links below.

COMPLETED
ONE-TIME ACTION

Participant Feed

Reflection, encouragement, and relationship building are all important aspects of getting a new habit to stick.
Share thoughts, encourage others, and reinforce positive new habits on the Feed.

To get started, share “your why.” Why did you join the challenge and choose the actions you did?

  • REFLECTION QUESTION
    Industry
    What did you learn about the climate impact of refrigerants? How do supermarkets contribute to this impact?

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    Roland Owings 4/10/2025 7:16 AM
    I learned that things used in refrigerants can harm the ozone layer, and supermarkets can and should swap out their harmful CFCs for more natural refrigerants.
  • REFLECTION QUESTION
    Industry
    What are some attributes of an offset that you should consider before purchasing them?

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    Roland Owings 4/09/2025 7:49 AM
    If they have been influenced by greenwashing or not because there is false information being spread about how things are good for the environment when they are not. You should also consider how much it costs and if it's reasonable to implement.
  • REFLECTION QUESTION
    Health and Education
    What did you learn about the need for family planning? How do the needs of different people in different places compare to each other?

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    Roland Owings 4/08/2025 8:04 AM
    I learned that family planning is needed to slow down overpopulation. People in poorer areas like Africa need better education than richer communities in the US to avoid unwanted pregnancy.
  • REFLECTION QUESTION
    Land Sinks
    Much of Indonesia's peatlands have been drained so they could be replaced with palm oil or pulp and paper plantations. How can you make choices that help to protect peatlands, even if you live far away from one?

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    Roland Owings 4/07/2025 7:56 AM
    A barrier that exists is the pay that women get causing most women to be a lower class than men are in the grand scheme of things. This barrier affects their participation on a global scale because they are less likely to get enough money to make a difference in society or have their voice heard. These barriers exist because men in history always made the rules so they made it impossible for someone who is not a man to be in power. I think a way we can address this moving forward is by giving women equal pay to men and moving forward to give women more chances to get jobs. In simple forms They are less likely to get a job or have enough money to pursue their dream jobs so they cannot have as much of an impact in society as men can.

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    Roland Owings 3/28/2025 7:55 AM
    its going very badly because I keep forgetting to submit the daily challenge.
  • REFLECTION QUESTION
    Food, Agriculture, and Land Use
    Why do people in richer countries eat more meat than people in other places? How does eating more meat affect our bodies, our planet, and other people?

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    Roland Owings 3/20/2025 8:02 AM
    because meat tastes better than most plants and are more expensive to produce than plants are. eating more meat can affect our bodies in a varying amount of ways, like it can be helpful supplying us with the protein we need to live, and it can be bad because of fats that can harm us. This can affect our planet because the extra meat we don't eat gets turned into waste which opens up a way for pollution.